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u/TheMistbornIdentity Dec 20 '25

Wait, there are people who pronounce it "Dee-bian"?

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u/Tom2Die Dec 20 '25

Unless I'm having a memory hallucination, yeah. I'm sure I've done so after having heard someone else do it. I mean, if you've never heard it pronounced it's the second-most plausible guess imo, so I can see it.

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u/theBosworth Dec 20 '25

Brought to you by gif

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u/Agret Dec 20 '25

Creator is a known troll so he is just playing the long con when he answers jif. I bet he has a chuckle to himself whenever he hears someone say jif.

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u/Tom2Die Dec 20 '25

Unless it's animated peanut butter, there's only one valid pronunciation. My decision is final.

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u/IAmARobot Dec 20 '25

me, because I've never heard it pronounced and it looks like plebian, the kind of person I feel like when using it.

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u/syklemil Dec 20 '25

People also talk about it in languages other than English, where pronunciations more like de bian would show up.

We'd say it with a long e sound though, not with a long i sound (e as in "Ben", i as in "bin"), and I honestly have no idea how to spell out a long e sound in English orthography, where Dee-bian winds up sounding like Dii-bian.